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British Pathé has a film of the #RoyalVisit to Salts Mill by George V & Queen Mary #OTD 1918 with shots of crowds at Fox Corner & Victoria Rd. They wrote: “..what a pleasure it was ..to pass through the thickly populated centre of #Shipley & #Saltaire”.
Newly released date for Lucienne de Ville & guests’ next performance in #Saltaire, #NoCharge. Another Sunday of entertainment, music & dance. Bar 56 on Bingley Rd. Saltaire’s #GotTalent
House 14 (sponsored by The Craft House https://t.co/BUL9CiAPG5) on our Open Houses Trail is 6 Harold Place, where you will Arts Trail regulars Paula Dunn and Ian Burdall. The Saltaire Arts Trail runs from Sat 25 - Mon 27 May. More at https://t.co/gEfWsvsNk6.
Some details from this morning’s Glorious Painting! course with Saltaire artist Ann Davies, focused today on underpainting #paint #painting #workshop #course #art #Saltaire #underpainting #learnsomethingnew
Marie Studholme, former Salts Grammar School pupil, #Saltaire & international #MusicHall singer & actor, was besieged by fans at the opening of the Alhambra theatre in #Bradford #OTD 1914.
More Glorious Stitching! 🧵✨#Stitch #stitching #embroidery #workshops #localtalent #Saltaire
Herbert b.1840, son of #TitusSalt of #Saltaire was buried in 1912 with his 1st wife Elizabeth & her sister Margaret his 2nd wife, in the 1837 #WestNorwood Cemetery, which has just secured £6.7m funding to restore it.
The #Saltaire #BrassBand led 3,000 mill hands to #Bradford Station for the journey to #Lightcliffe for #TitusSalt’s birthday bash at Crow Nest mansion in 1856. #AlcoholFree but it wasn’t January
#TitusSalt Jnr released 9,000 trout into the beck at #MilnerField, 4,000 into the #RiverAire nr #Saltaire & 2,000 into his father’s lake at his Crow Nest mansion Lightcliffe, nr #Halifax. #Conservation in 1870
#OTD St Thomas’ Day the poor went a-thomasing, children in #Saltaire queued for a gift from #TitusSalt & were counted twice to make sure no-one had more than one. #ShortestDay #WinterSolstice
Suddenly #OTD 1887 #TitusSalt Jnr, supporter of cremation, found in the billiard room at #MilnerField. Heart failure aged 44. Laid to rest in #Saltaire #UnitedReformedChurch
Tidier coiffure for the younger #TitusSalt as depicted on the 1856 #birthday bust, his present from the workforce, in #Saltaire #UnitedReformedChurch. Once a #baronet, not so bothered. #NationalBeardDay
Born #OTD 1841 in #Bradford Fanny Salt had TB & despite wintering in the French #spatown of Pau & #StLeonards #EastSussex, she died just before her 20th birthday at home, Methley Hall. Immortalised in #Saltaire.
#BOTD 1928, Tony Richardson #OscarWinner #filmdirector lived on #Bingley Rd #Saltaire. Married to Vanessa Redgrave, parents to actors Joely & Natasha. BFI #BluePlaque
Before #Saltaire was built #TitusSalt exhibited alpaca cloth at the 1851 Great Exhibition #HydePark opened #OTD 1851. He was advised not to buy part of the building for a weaving shed. #Vibrations
These big guns from the #NapoleonicWars that #TitusSalt bought for Roberts Park #Saltaire were melted down in #WW2. Replacements arrive 21 April at noon for #WorldHeritageDay shindigs.
#OTD 1996 the 1st Salts Walk from the 1st #Saltaire Information Centre with Clive Woods #historian & #HongKong students. Another #HappyBirthday
A wacky #Victorian #HappyEaster. Wishing all in #Saltaire - traders, guides,volunteers & twitter followers a terrific day. Especial thanks to the #GoodEggs in the #VisitorInformationCentre.
2018 #Saltaire Arts Trail Postcard #Exhibition #OpenToAll at the #UnitedReformedChurch 4 May & then at the CellarTrustCafe. Entries by 11 April https://t.co/vK6TZ2PRH3